Chapter 112: Cruise Ship (10)
“They made it! That’s amazing!”
Seeing the first mate and the two sailors successfully reach the outside of the time loop, everyone waiting on the gangway couldn’t help but cheer.
But their smiles barely formed when, in the towering waves next to the small boat, a figure completely covered in slime—pale as if it had been gazing at corpses for centuries—suddenly leapt out. Its enormous mouth, fish-like but filled with countless sharp teeth, clamped down on the first mate’s head, who was sitting in the center of the lifeboat.
A human skull, normally extremely sturdy, seemed as fragile as a broken chocolate bar under the monster’s jaw.
With a sickening crack, the first mate didn’t even have time to scream. By the time the figure arced through the water and splashed down on the lifeboat’s side, only half of his skull remained. The upper portion—including the eyes, brain, and all internal structures—was gone, leaving the bare jaw and gums exposed. Blood gushed like a boiling spring.
“Ahhh… Aaaahhh!”
“No! First Mate Wright! First Mate Wright!”
Both sailors in the lifeboat, along with everyone on the gangway, were wide-eyed with horror, unable to comprehend what they had just witnessed.
The creature that had attacked the first mate was clearly the same type as the ones lurking in the water beneath the Golden Anchor. But weren’t they supposed to be trapped inside the time loop? How did they get outside…?